MANDELA, Nelson. The Illustrated Long Walk to Freedom. Boston, Little Brown and Company, [1996].
4to. Original wassa goatskin-backed terracotta cloth boards, all edges gilt, in the original watered silk-lined black cloth-covered drop-back box with illustrated title mounted on front cover, in the original corrugated cardboard box, lettered in terracotta print, numbered by hand (a little rubbed); pp. 208, highly illustrated in colour and black and white throughout; fine.
The most beautifully produced of all the signed limited editions published after Mandela's release from prison. This one is limited to 425 copies (this being numbered 299 by hand) and comes with a loosely-inserted original mounted, and sleeve-protected, portrait after a photograph taken by Benny Gool, signed by Nelson Mandela and dated October 6, 1996.
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